We must in imagination sweep off the drifted matter that clogs the surface of the ground;
ADAM SEDGWICK[Vestiges begins] from principles which are at variance with all sober inductive truth.
More Adam Sedgwick Quotes
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The world is not as it was when it came from its Maker’s hands.
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[Vestiges begins] from principles which are at variance with all sober inductive truth.
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Our chronicle seems to fail us-a leaf has been torn out from nature’s record, and the succession of events is almost hidden from our eyes.
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we may then see the muscular integuments, and sinews, and bones of our mother Earth,
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The pretended physical philosophy of modern days strips Man of all his moral attributes
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Or holds them of no account in the estimate of his origin and place in the created world.
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The utmost movements that he allows are a slight quivering of her muscular integuments.
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Among the older records, we find chapter after chapter of which we can read the characters, and make out their meaning: and as we approach the period of man’s creation,
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Considered as a mere question of physics, (and keeping all moral considerations entirely out of sight,) the appearance of man is a geological phenomenon of vast importance
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But just as we begin to enter on the history of physical changes going on before our eyes, and in which we ourselves bear a part,
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Our book becomes more clear, and nature seems to speak to us in language so like our own, that we easily comprehend it.
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The powers of nature are never in repose; her work never stands still.
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Yet Mr. Lyell will admit no greater paroxysms than we ourselves have witnessed-no periods of feverish spasmodic energy, during which the very framework of nature has been convulsed and torn asunder.
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From first to last it is a dish of rank materialism cleverly cooked up.
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Like so much horse-physic!! Gross credulity and rank infidelity joined in unlawful marriage, and breeding a deformed progeny of unnatural conclusions!
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